Deepthought

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I think I just nailed it... Obama is trying to hook up "his people" with free health care and there aint no way in hell some people are going to…

Crazy Eileen Must Never Have Been a Mother

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I have been thinking about what you have to believe to be a birther. It must be hard to keep your head in it. You have to believe that Obama's Mother was crazy. You have to believe that she was quite pregnant and willingly flew to Kenya. She had to fly for something like two days on two or three different airlines. She had to fly like 3 segments on PanAm and 2 or 3 on East African Airways.

I Must See This

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Today's news of the surreal: Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will join 15 celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports in kicking up their heels on the new…

Chart of the Day

An excellent depiction of the current state of the Too Big to Fail showing their bonus payouts vs TARP holdings and current earnings or losses:

The Deep Roots of the Right Wing Crazy Tree

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Rick Pearlstein wrote an amazing op-ed today, which shows how the wingnut crazy has been a persistent part of the political landscape throughout much of the 20th century. (I love the story about how the right thought of Truman and Roosevelt years as "20 years of treason". Especially since the current expectation by their descendants is that history will rehabilitate BushCo in the way it rehabilitated Truman.) Pearlstein makes this point: